This inaugural issue of a new annual reviews series in Annals provides authoritative coverage of timely topics in neurology and psychiatry, some of which lie within either field, while others span both.

This Annals volume highlights neuroscience research on the unique contributions of music to programs of cognitive stimulation and rehabilitation, including music-based interventions for neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease.

This Annals volume presents the New York City Panel on Climate Change 2015 Report on climate change in New York City, which includes recommendations on climate projections for the coming decades to the end of the century.

This Annals volume presents two meeting reports: (1) Influencing circadian and sleep–wake regulation for prevention and intervention in mood and anxiety disorders: what makes a good homeostat?; and (2) One Medicine One Science: a framework for exploring challenges at the intersection of animals, humans, and the environment.

This Annals volume presents three meeting reports: (1) Head and neck cancer: from research to therapy and cure; (2) Sequencing the head and neck cancer genome: implications for therapy; and (3) New functions and signaling mechanisms for the class of adhesion G protein–coupled receptors.

This Annals volume presents a global research agenda for nutrition science developed by the Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and scientists from several academic and nonprofit institutions across the world.

This Annals volume presents a thought-provoking four-part series on the intersection of life and death, with a special emphasis on implications for how we understand and approach mortality from scientific, ethical, and spiritual perspectives.

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